Gartner: Global smartphone shipments saw another decline in Q2 2019

According to the latest report from Gartner Research, worldwide smartphone sales over the April - June period totaled 368 million units. That's 1.7% lower than the same time last year. Samsung maintained the top spot in terms of market share with 20.4% of all smartphone sales for the period, followed by Huawei with 15.8% and Apple with 10.5%. The top five list is complete with Xiaomi and Oppo which held 9 and 7.6% market share respectively. For Samsung, this was the first quarterly growth after six consecutive declines as it managed to push out 75 million units in total. The strong...